February 4, 2021/IMFBlog By Jihad Azour The road to recovery for the Middle East and Central Asia region will hinge on containment measures, access to and distribution of vaccines, the scope of policies to support growth, and measures to mitigate economic scarring from the pandemic. The virus’s second wave, which […]

February 4, 2021/Proshare  by FBNQuest Research The latest inflation report (December) released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows the sixteenth successive uptick in the y/y headline rate. In 2020 the highest m/m increase in the headline measure was 86bps in December while November, October and September registered rises […]

February 3, 2021/IMFBlog By Philip Barrett, Sophia Chen, and Nan Li In 1832, the great cholera pandemic hit Paris. In just a few months, the disease killed 20,000 of the city’s 650,000 population. Most fatalities occurred in the heart of the city, where many poor workers lived in squalid conditions, […]